#BAFCDB is a soft, temperate teal-green. On the Color Lab it reads organic and grounded. It holds up as a large surface and is too pale to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #BAFCDB works with other colors. Named schemes with #BAFCDB in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Tea Green leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
Tea Green keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Tea Green sets a calm, sun-bleached base here, wrapped in bone and paper off-whites and a soft greige, with a single ink accent for wabi-sabi restraint.
Tea Green holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
Tea Green is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Tea Green carrying the quiet middle.
How #BAFCDB actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #BAFCDB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #BAFCDB;
--color-base-rgb: 186 252 219;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(93.8% 0.080 162.7);
--color-50: #F0FEF7;
--color-100: #D8FDEB;
--color-200: #B1FCD6;
--color-300: #7CF3B8;
--color-400: #4DE599;
--color-500: #29CB7A;
--color-600: #289A61;
--color-700: #226D47;
--color-800: #1A4730;
--color-900: #122B1F;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tea-green: {
50: '#F0FEF7',
100: '#D8FDEB',
200: '#B1FCD6',
300: '#7CF3B8',
400: '#4DE599',
500: '#29CB7A',
600: '#289A61',
700: '#226D47',
800: '#1A4730',
900: '#122B1F',
},
}
$base: #BAFCDB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F0FEF7; $base-100: #D8FDEB; $base-200: #B1FCD6; $base-300: #7CF3B8; $base-400: #4DE599; $base-500: #29CB7A; $base-600: #289A61; $base-700: #226D47; $base-800: #1A4730; $base-900: #122B1F; $base-hover: #66F9AF; $base-subtle: #EDFCF4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#BAFCDB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F0FEF7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D8FDEB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B1FCD6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#7CF3B8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#4DE599",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#29CB7A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#289A61",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#226D47",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1A4730",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#122B1F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}